All told, Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles. His control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he obtained at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to act with virtual impunity. When Connolley didn&#8217;t like the subject of a certain article, he removed it &#8212; more than 500 articles of various descriptions disappeared at his hand. When he disapproved of the arguments that others were making, he often had them barred &#8212; over 2,000 Wikipedia contributors who ran afoul of him found themselves blocked from making further contributions.

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Connolley took control of all things climate in the most used information source the world has ever known &#8211; Wikipedia. Starting in February 2003, just when opposition to the claims of the band members were beginning to gel, Connolley set to work on the Wikipedia site. He rewrote Wikipedia&#8217;s articles on global warming, on the greenhouse effect, on the instrumental temperature record, on the urban heat island, on climate models, on global cooling. On Feb. 14, he began to erase the Little Ice Age; on Aug.11, the Medieval Warm Period. In October, he turned his attention to the hockey stick graph. He rewrote articles on the politics of global warming and on the scientists who were skeptical of the band. Richard Lindzen and Fred Singer, two of the world&#8217;s most distinguished climate scientists, were among his early targets, followed by others that the band especially hated, such as Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, authorities on the Medieval Warm Period.

Quite an amazing undertaking. Totally unnecessary if the AGW science was valid. As it is though, as we are finding out more and more, AGW science is a witch's brew of 3 parts bullshit, 1 part snake oil salesmanship.

The faster these charlatan's bait and switch techniques become exposed, the better for all of us.

All told, Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles. His control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he obtained at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to act with virtual impunity. When Connolley didnt like the subject of a certain article, he removed it  more than 500 articles of various descriptions disappeared at his hand. When he disapproved of the arguments that others were making, he often had them barred  over 2,000 Wikipedia contributors who ran afoul of him found themselves blocked from making further contributions.

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Connolley took control of all things climate in the most used information source the world has ever known  Wikipedia. Starting in February 2003, just when opposition to the claims of the band members were beginning to gel, Connolley set to work on the Wikipedia site. He rewrote Wikipedias articles on global warming, on the greenhouse effect, on the instrumental temperature record, on the urban heat island, on climate models, on global cooling. On Feb. 14, he began to erase the Little Ice Age; on Aug.11, the Medieval Warm Period. In October, he turned his attention to the hockey stick graph. He rewrote articles on the politics of global warming and on the scientists who were skeptical of the band. Richard Lindzen and Fred Singer, two of the worlds most distinguished climate scientists, were among his early targets, followed by others that the band especially hated, such as Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, authorities on the Medieval Warm Period.

Quite an amazing undertaking. Totally unnecessary if the AGW science was valid. As it is though, as we are finding out more and more, AGW science is a witch's brew of 3 parts bullshit, 1 part snake oil salesmanship.

The faster these charlatan's bait and switch techniques become exposed, the better for all of us.

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Yet another example of why no one intelligent takes WIKI too seriously.

Hell I remember one time I modified and article about Iraq....me and someone were arguing and I added in the following

"There has even been an online argument between LordZero and PLYMCO_PILGRIM on this matter. As is shown by all available evidence PLYMCO_PILGRIM is correct"

It was only up for a day or so but it was super funny...the guy used the wiki article to say I was wrong so I edited it and said "dude the article says i'm right"

All told, Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles. His control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he obtained at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to act with virtual impunity. When Connolley didnt like the subject of a certain article, he removed it  more than 500 articles of various descriptions disappeared at his hand. When he disapproved of the arguments that others were making, he often had them barred  over 2,000 Wikipedia contributors who ran afoul of him found themselves blocked from making further contributions.

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Connolley took control of all things climate in the most used information source the world has ever known  Wikipedia. Starting in February 2003, just when opposition to the claims of the band members were beginning to gel, Connolley set to work on the Wikipedia site. He rewrote Wikipedias articles on global warming, on the greenhouse effect, on the instrumental temperature record, on the urban heat island, on climate models, on global cooling. On Feb. 14, he began to erase the Little Ice Age; on Aug.11, the Medieval Warm Period. In October, he turned his attention to the hockey stick graph. He rewrote articles on the politics of global warming and on the scientists who were skeptical of the band. Richard Lindzen and Fred Singer, two of the worlds most distinguished climate scientists, were among his early targets, followed by others that the band especially hated, such as Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, authorities on the Medieval Warm Period.

Quite an amazing undertaking. Totally unnecessary if the AGW science was valid. As it is though, as we are finding out more and more, AGW science is a witch's brew of 3 parts bullshit, 1 part snake oil salesmanship.

The faster these charlatan's bait and switch techniques become exposed, the better for all of us.

Click to expand...

Yet another example of why no one intelligent takes WIKI too seriously.

Hell I remember one time I modified and article about Iraq....me and someone were arguing and I added in the following

"There has even been an online argument between LordZero and PLYMCO_PILGRIM on this matter. As is shown by all available evidence PLYMCO_PILGRIM is correct"

It was only up for a day or so but it was super funny...the guy used the wiki article to say I was wrong so I edited it and said "dude the article says i'm right"

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